Finished reading: In the Early Times by Tad Friend 📚 a good read but ultimately so sad. The way being born an American WASP can pollute your being. I have some of it in my background.
Currently reading: Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor 📚
Currently reading: In the Early Times by Tad Friend 📚
Caturday
I’ve started running again. Sort of. I’m doing the walk/run thing. If my heart rate gets to high, I get a migraine. Started out with walk 4 mins, run 30 seconds. Now it’s walk 2 mins, run 45 seconds. And I kinda love it. I feel like I can go miles and miles at this pace. 🏃♀️
Currently reading: The First World War by John Keegan 📚
Finished reading: Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg 📚There’s some useful information in here. But so much comes across as dated, and lazy, especially when reading Robert Macfarlane at the same time.
Currently reading: Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane 📚
Finished reading: The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚A beautiful book. It was an enjoyable way to get to know the author. I hiked in the Sierra Nevada as a 20-something and the book brought back good memories.
Who knew that the US Library of Congress has 2,000 flutes in its collection?
How Lizzo came to play a president’s crystal flute on a D.C. stage
Currently reading: The Promise by Damon Galgut 📚
Finished reading: Adam Bede (Broadview Editions) by George Eliot 📚A surprisingly modern novel. So much about class and unfairness and gender and choices and the lack thereof. I loved it.
Finished reading: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen 📚Tales of good people behaving badly. But they behaved so badly that it was hard to maintain interest in and empathy for them.
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Long COVID Outpaces Diabetes in 2022 Employer Health Care Costs, Nomi Health Research Finds
Currently reading: The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez 📚
A beautiful and frightening article. Climate change, ecological change. Somewhere else I heard a climatologist say “this was the coolest summer of the rest of our lives.”
Yukon salmon populations are falling. The cultural damage is vast.
Depression, anxiety may escalate chances of long COVID, says study – Harvard Gazette
Finished reading: The Story Of The Lost Child by Elena Ferrante 📚I’m sad to finish this quartet of novels, they are each so so good. I didn’t know that no one knows who the author is: Elena Ferrante: Who Is Behind the Pseudonym? - The Atlantic
Currently reading: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen 📚
Distinguishing features of Long COVID identified through immune profiling | medRxiv
How long covid reshapes the brain — and how we might treat it
The world is moving on from the pandemic. Not these covid long-haulers.
I was just about to complain “how come I didn’t know @martinfeld has started the very interesting Really Specific Stories podcast” but then I noticed that I wasn’t following him. Duh. Fixed it. BTW, I’ve been listening to tech podcasts since 2004, if you need a listener.
Currently reading: Adam Bede (Broadview Editions) by George Eliot 📚
Finished reading: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery 📚I quite enjoyed this even as the main characters annoyed me from time to time. It’s needlessly sad at the end but I can see why the author chose to do it. Beautifully written, in translation from original French.